liberticide
liberticide adjective: causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal.
Adjective
liberticide (not comparable)
- Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
- […] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns.1798, translation of Madame Roland, An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, First American Edition—Corrected, Volume I, A. Van Hook (publisher), pages 151–152
- The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.1811 January 26, Thomas Jefferson, letter to M. D. Destutt Tracy, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph (editor), Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume IV, Henry Colburn and...
Noun
liberticide (countable and uncountable, plural liberticides)
- The destruction of liberty.
- All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character.1819, “Ouida” (pseudonym), “An Impeachment of Modern Italy”, in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, Volume 18, Number 5 (1819 November), page 557
- In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide.1976, Lance Banning, “Jeffersonian Ideology and the French Revolution: A Question of Liberticide at Home”, in Studies in Burke and His Time, Volume 17, Number 1, Texas Tech Press, page 20
- One who causes the destruction of liberty.
- Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC
liberticide meaning in Tamil
liberticide in Tamil
- விடுதலை உரிமை அழிப்பவர்
Forms of liberticide
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Origin of liberticide
From French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution. Equivalent to liberty + -cide.
Questions about liberticide
- What does liberticide mean?
- Liberticide means causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal.
- What is liberticide in Tamil?
- Liberticide in Tamil is விடுதலை உரிமை அழிப்பவர். See Liberticide meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is liberticide?
- Liberticide can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near liberticide in the dictionary
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